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Chris Smith: “It is time for all of us, those of us in the human rights advocacy world, those of you in Congress, those in the…”

On the recordMay 21, 2014
It is time for all of us, those of us in the human rights advocacy world, those of you in Congress, those in the administration, to take note of what is happening to members of this peaceful faith who do no one any harm, who seek nothing but brotherhood, and yet they are brutally in many places persecuted.
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Chris Smith
Republican · New Jersey

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Smith emphasizes the need for awareness of religious persecution.

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